The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-10-12
Senator Allison.

opened the campaign in Northeastern Iowa,
with speech before great audience at
West Union. He devoted his speech
chiefly to National affairs, discussing the
subject Of interstate commerce. the Treas
ury surplus, the public land policy, civil
service reform, and other leading issues.
On the question Of the Treasury surplus,
he said among other things: 1T must be
borne in mind that tax laws can only origin
ate in the House of Representatives, and
that the Senate has no power under the
Constitution until the House acts, so that
the whole responsibility for this failure to
reduce taxes rests upon the late House Of
Representatives, or did so rest until the 4th
of March. 1887. From that time until now
the President shares this responsibility,
because it was his duty. the last House
having failed, to Immediately assemble
Congress in extra session for the purpose
of reducing taxes, to relieve the people
from the excessive burdens of taxation.
This the President did not do, and by his
non action. nine months of the present
Congress has passed away without oppor-
tunity being given for the consideration Of
this question.
Mr.. Allison, in conclusion, and in sum-
ming up, said: You naturally, after this
review, ask what has the Democratic party
ident who, before election and after cleo
ton, and before Inauguration, and repeat
edly since, in messages and public utter
ances, professed the greatest solicitude for
pure and non partisan civil service. But
in his conduct he has wholly failed TO pro-
vide such service, and has prostituted the
service wholly to party purposes and uses;
first stealthily, but recently without dis
guise as witness its prostitution in Mary
land, Pennsylvania, and New York, con-
trolling caucuses and conventions, notably
in New York, where the Chairman of the
Examining Board of New York City active
~ sought to control delegations to the State
convention, and now the establishment of
political associations of clerks and employees
in the departments to control caucuses and
elections, in violation of the letter and
spirit of the civil-service law, without pro-
test from the heads of departments, or the
Executive, 80 far as is known.
In its foreign policy, it has been irreso-
Lutte and weak. In its financial policy it
has urged the destruction of greenbacks
and the repeal of the silver coinage acts,
SO that by force Of these two measures
there would be a destruction of our paper
circulation, and the establishment of the
single standard of gold. Promising to re-
duce the surplus, it has increased that
surplus to the extent of S74, 900, 600, with
drawing large sums from production, labor,
and business.
Promising to reduce taxes it has abso-
lutely and completely failed to do SO.
whereby from month to month large sums,
unnecessary for the operations of the Gov
eminent are drawn from the people into
the Treasury, thus continuing TO depress
the labor industries and business of the
country.
We have seen the Democratic party dem
onstrate its sectionalism in its power, in
its policies. and in its leaders, holding that
control in one section united now by q
sentiment as it was formerly by simple
interest. This sectional control dominates
at home and abroad, in the departments,
and in the country, and in the House OF
Representatives, as have shown.